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With rare exceptions, cancer cells are not transmissible from one individual to another.
The TYLCV progeny ssDNA, however, can be encapsidated, and the resultant viral particles are transmissible from one plant to another by insects.
This week The Independent reported the findings of a small-scale study which indicated that Alzheimer's may be transmissible from one person to another via certain medical procedures.
On 29 January, he said the latest findings support the hypothesis that protein seeds leading to Alzheimer's disease may be transmissible from one person to another during invasive medical procedures such as tissue grafts and hormone injections.
Practically, these two classes of disease are the same, because infectious diseases generally are communicable, or transmissible, from one host to another, and the causative agent, therefore, is disseminated, directly or indirectly, through the host population.
In both studies, it was these bench scientists who saw the first signs that they had created new strains of the H5N1 virus that were transmissible from one ferret to another through sneezing and coughing a finding they realized would be huge news.
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They are "transmissible because they can be transmitted from one animal to another, "spongiform" because autopsy shows that the victim's brain has spongelike holes all through it; and encephalopathy because they affect the brain..
Giesecke [ 114] defines infectious disease as "all diseases caused by micro-organisms", with sub-definitions of communicable and transmissible disease (communicable disease: capable of being transmitted from an infected individual to another person, directly or indirectly; transmissible disease: able to be transmitted from one individual to another by 'unnatural' routes).
But this dangerous and transmissible bacterium was isolated only from one CF patient.
Administration of prion by the intracerebral, intraperitoneal, intravenous, subcutaneous, intraocular, intraspinal, or oral route transmits the disease from one animal to another and hence prion diseases are called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs).
The ultimate step in the evolution to total independence of cancer cells is the success of some cancers to transfer from one organism to another, as parasites do: by infection like Tasmanian devils transmissible tumors, which in their path to total independence have even managed to acquire new mitochondria from one transitory host [ 206].
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